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20202024
most citedObservation of topological flat bands in the kagome semiconductor NbCl

145 citations · 390 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 11 cited

Evidence for Two-dimensional Weyl Fermions in Air-Stable Monolayer PtTe

Zhihao Cai, Haijun Cao, Haohao Sheng +14

The Weyl semimetals represent a distinct category of topological materials wherein the low-energy excitations appear as the long-sought Weyl fermions. Exotic transport and optical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 68 cited

Evidence for Multiferroicity in Single-Layer CuCrSe

Zhenyu Sun, Yueqi Su, Aomiao Zhi +13

Multiferroic materials, which simultaneously exhibit ferroelectricity and magnetism, have attracted substantial attention due to their fascinating physical properties and potential…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

Layer-dependent Raman spectroscopy of ultrathin TaPdTe

Zhenyu Sun, Zhaopeng Guo, Dayu Yan +7

Two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs) or quantum spin Hall insulators are attracting increasing attention due to their potential applications in next-generation spintronic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

Bound excitons and bandgap engineering in violet phosphorus

Zhenyu Sun, Zhihao Cai, Peng Cheng +5

Violet phosphorus (VP), the most stable phosphorus allotrope, is a van der Waals semiconductor that can be used to construct -type nanodevices. Recently, high-quality V…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 29 cited

Realization of a two-dimensional checkerboard lattice in monolayer CuN

Xuegao Hu, Run-Wu Zhang, Da-Shuai Ma +10

Two-dimensional checkerboard lattice, the simplest line-graph lattice, has been intensively studied as a toy model, while material design and synthesis remain elusive. Here, we rep…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 23 cited

Observation of Gapped Dirac Cones in a Two-Dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Lattice

Daiyu Geng, Hui Zhou, Shaosheng Yue +6

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in a two-dimensional rectangular lattice features gapless or gapped Dirac cones with topological edge states along specific peripheries. While…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 31 cited

Exfoliation of 2D van der Waals crystals in ultrahigh vacuum for interface engineering

Zhenyu Sun, Xu Han, Zhihao Cai +11

Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterostructures have been intensively studied in recent years due to their potential applications in electronic, optoelectronic, and spint…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 145 cited

Observation of topological flat bands in the kagome semiconductor NbCl

Zhenyu Sun, Hui Zhou, Cuixiang Wang +12

The destructive interference of wavefunctions in a kagome lattice can give rise to topological flat bands (TFBs) with a highly degenerate state of electrons. Recently, TFBs have be…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 25 cited

Observation of one-dimensional Dirac fermions in silicon nanoribbons

Shaosheng Yue, Hui Zhou, Ya Feng +12

Dirac materials, which feature Dirac cones in the reciprocal space, have been one of the hottest topics in condensed matter physics in the past decade. To date, 2D and 3D Dirac Fer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 24 cited

Observation of quantum spin Hall states in TaPdTe

Xuguang Wang, Daiyu Geng, Dayu Yan +14

Two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs), which host the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, are one of the key materials in next-generation spintronic devices. To date, experime…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 14 cited

Experimental observation of Dirac cones in artificial graphene lattices

Shaosheng Yue, Hui Zhou, Daiyu Geng +8

Artificial lattices provide a tunable platform to realize exotic quantum devices. A well-known example is artificial graphene (AG), in which electrons are confined in honeycomb lat…